I haven't published anything on the Bakery except for comments, so I can't comment on the process. However, I will note that the software is pretty screwed up. All my article reply notifications are blank e- mails--not even a link to the comment/article. I personally hate it when people send me e-mails or make forum posts where they don't write anything in the message body and just use the subject-line as the message. And I think this, along with dead links in the Cookbook, both make Cake look very unprofessional.
But I don't think just forking the Bakery is a solution. Cake needs a centralized/official article/plugins repository. There are just a few things that need to be fixed is all. Even if someone were to fork the Bakery, it would not be as successful/useful. The Bakery is only so useful today because lots of people know about and use it--it's linked to right from the CakePHP homepage. So this "if you don't like it, just fork it" attitude is not appropriate. It's similar to the attitude that, if you find Cake's documentation lacking, you should write it yourself. FOSS is about cooperation and free exchange of ideas and information. It's not an excuse to deflect all criticism or pin all responsibilities on the user/critic. And a person does not need to have contributed to Cake's source code to level a valid criticism. On Apr 25, 2:46 pm, jacmoe <jac...@mail.dk> wrote: > That doesn't give you carte blanche to be arrogant, does it? > > What have you done for CakePHP if I may ask? :) > > A couple of weeks ago I posted this > topic:http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/e3a1f469... > With the title 'Let's get rid of The Bakery'. > > I volunteered as a moderator, but there's still lots of things to do. > And the software itself needs some fixing. > > Feel free to fork it. > > I would probably delete the article as well, if there haven't been any > response in three months - I don't know what article it was, since I > concentrate on removing spam rather than approving articles. > Due to my newness to CakePHP mostly. > > So: what have you done for CakePHP ? :D > > Cheers > > Jacob > > On Apr 25, 11:42 am, Jayesh Wadhwani <jwadhw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The Bakery is supposed to be a place where cakePHP developers exchange > > ideas which in turn enhances the framework. > > > I recently published a helper and it languished for pending review for > > weeks on end. I visited the IRC and other than rude and arrogant > > answers there was not much help. > > > I did not receive any emails as to why there was a delay. > > > Today I log in and see this message.. "This article has been deleted > > and is not available for publication. Review The Bakery Publishing > > Guidelines to understand why this article was deleted." > > > Brilliant reviewer! Don't you think it would be a better to tell me > > what is the exact problem so that I can correct it. According to > > guidelines I do get 60 days. Right! > > > So, what is it? The reviewers just do not care, are plain lazy or just > > purely arrogant. > > > If cakePHP has grown to such as level that it cannot handle the bakery > > and breeds arrogance then I suggest that you get rid of it. > > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organdhelp others > > with their CakePHP related questions. > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "CakePHP" group. > > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://cakeqs.organd help others with > their CakePHP related questions. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CakePHP" group. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en
